1.13.0

This is a major new release with a large number of improvements and bug fixes:

• Type and package generics now work correctly with components and configurations (#883).
• Fixed a crash when a matching case? alternative contains multiple choices (#890).
• Implemented VHPI support for package declarations and vhpiPackInsts iterators (#891).
• Signatures in attribute names are now parsed correctly (#892).
• Attribute specifications for all are now parsed correctly (#889).
• Predefined "=" and "/=" operators are no longer declared for file types.
• Alias of packages now work correctly (#893).
• Stricter checking of identifiers to reject those with multiple consecutive underscores or trailing underscores (from @typingArtist).
• Stricter checking for subprograms, deferred constants, and protected types referenced before their corresponding body or full declaration.
• Decimal physical literals like 8.2 ms are now correctly rounded (to 8200 us in this case) when they are converted to the base unit (#899).
• External names can now be passed as signal actuals to subprograms (#900).
• Fixed a crash when branch coverage is enabled and an if-statement contains a return (#903).
• The NVC_CONCURRENT_JOBS environment variable can be used to scale the number of worker threads NVC creates based on the number of concurrently executing simulations.
• Fixed a crash when certain attributes such as 'val are used in the target of a signal assignment statement (#908).
• Signals in packages are now dumped to the FST file (#901).
• Function interface declarations can now be pure or impure (#917).

Special thank you to @bpadalino, @tmeissner, @Blebowski, @amb5l, @m42uko, @a-panella, @cmarqu, and @albydnc for sponsoring me!